Domains

Dates

Date of occurence: 1650

Places

France (Location)

Germany (Location)

United Kingdom (Location)

United States (Involved)

Context

The sublime is one of the key concepts in eighteenth-century and
Romantic aesthetics. The term derives from the anonymous treatise
Peri hypsous, long thought to have been composed by
Longinus, in which rhetorical effects of the sublime are described
in detail. The English and French lexeme sublime also has
its roots in the rhetorical tradition, in the distinction of
stilus sublimus versus stilus humilis. In
neoclassical poetics this influential distinction between a ‘high
style’ for tragedy and a ‘low style’ for comedy may have fed into
the choice of vocabulary for the seventeenth-century translations
of Pseudo-Longinus into French (trans. Boileau, 1674) and English
(trans. John Hall, 1652). Following …

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